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From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, fw@strlen.de,
	pabeni@redhat.com, brouer@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net: use bulk free in kfree_skb_list
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 16:49:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190325164929.03d67fb6@carbon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d973ed2-1915-a87d-d10f-6a0f68240ac0@gmail.com>

On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 02:27:14 -0700
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:

> > +#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB
> > +		/* SLUB writes into objects when freeing */
> > +		prefetchw(segs);
> > +#endif  
> 
> This is done too late : 
> You should probably either remove this prefetchw()
> or do it before reading segs->next at the beginning of the loop.

Agree. Not sure the prefetchw optimization makes sense here. IHMO just
drop it in this patch.

-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer

      reply	other threads:[~2019-03-25 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-25  9:14 [PATCH v3] net: use bulk free in kfree_skb_list Felix Fietkau
2019-03-25  9:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-03-25 15:49   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer [this message]

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